Request for Solutions: Aviation Universal Charger

Special Notice N0016424SNC09 Agency:

Department of the Navy Office:

Naval Sea Systems Command Location: Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC)

Crane Division NAICS Code: 541715 – Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Science PSC Code: AC13 – National Defense R&D Services;

Department of Defense Anticipated RFS Release Date:

13 August 2024 Request for Solutions: Aviation Universal Charger PURPOSE This special notice is to inform vendors of an upcoming Request for Solutions (RFS). The purpose of this RFS is to solicit innovative proposals for fieldable, deployable, functional way to maintain, analyze, charge, and discharge the legacy and future aviation batteries.

The Government will evaluate the solutions with the intent of awarding a Project Order under the Expeditionary Missions Consortium (EMC2) Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) in accordance with 10 U.S.C. § 4022. BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY EMC2 Vendors interested in responding to this RFS must be members of the (EMC2). Interested parties should visit emccrane.org for membership information. This project will be managed by a Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division Project Manager.

The RFS is anticipated to be released via the weblink listed above for EMC2 on or around 13 August 2024. PROJECT OVERVIEW A three phased approach is preferred. The first phase takes the project through preliminary design review and closeout. This first phase should include identifying the necessary requirements and designing a universal aviation charger. The government team will identify many of the necessary requirements in the Statement of Need.

It is expected the Government and the vendor will collaborate in this first phase. The second phase ends with critical design review and close out. This second phase should include finalizing the design and limited testing along with providing at least one prototype. Third year is prototypes and testing.

All interested parties should visit the EMC2 website at https://emccrane.org/ to become a member of the consortium to view the upcoming RFS on or around 13 August 2024. The RFS will not be available for viewing until or around 13 August 2024. In addition to this Special Notice on SAM.gov, the EMC2 consortium manager will notify all consortium members of the upcoming RFS on or around the same time this notice is published to SAM.gov.

Contracting Office Address: 300 Hwy 361 Crane, IN 47522 United States Primary Point of Contact.: Mark Dravet mark.v.dravetciv@us.navy.mil Phone:

812-381-7085 Secondary Point of Contact: Sydney Wittmann sydney.l.wittmann.civ@us.navy.mil Phone: 812-381-0990